David Cameron has predicted a difficult 2012, but says the Olympics and Queen's Diamond Jubilee will give Britain a boost. And also on today's programme, an English football manager on why he thinks that any Englishman, including him, would find it hard to turn down the job of managing the national team.

0615 Business news with Simon Jack on what is in store for the year ahead.

0709 Rail commuters preparing to return to work after the Christmas break face fare rises of up to 11% from Monday, watchdog Passenger Focus has said. Anthony Smith, CEO of Passenger Focus, and Michael Roberts, CEO of ATOC, discuss
the rising cost of rail travel.

0714 A 20-year-old man has been charged with murdering Anuj Bidve, the Indian student who was shot in the head in Salford on Boxing day. BBC correspondent Nick Ravenscroft reports.
Read the news story.

0717 Business news with Simon Jack.

0720 The 'apocalyptic' ending of the Mayan calendar in December is one notable example of
doom predicted for 2012.
Art Lester, co-author of the Coffee Table Book of Doom, and Prof Chris French, who heads the anomalistic psychology research unit at Goldsmiths College, University of London, discuss what drives the interest in prophecies of doom.

0725 Sports news with Rob Bonnet

0732 Two think tanks are publishing pamphlets arguing that David Cameron would do well to
revive the ideas behind the Big Society.
Professor Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College, who wrote one pamphlet for Policy Exchange, and Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA, who wrote the other, discuss why they want the prime minister to bring back the concept.

0739 The paper review.

0742The government is publishing recipes for healthy meals
that can be made relatively cheaply and is encouraging three supermarket chains to offer discounts on some healthy foods. Public health minister Paul Burstow explains why encouraging people to eat more healthily is one of the government's new year's resolutions.

0747 Thought for the day with Canon Dr Alan Billings.

0750 Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has told Robert Peston that
an Englishman should manage the England football team
after Fabio Capello steps down. Keir Radnedge of World Soccer magazine and sports writer Alyson Rudd debate whether, in this globalised world, it is petty to insist national teams are managed by someone from the home country.

0810What lies in store for the UK in 2012?
Home editor Mark Easton, economics editor Stephanie Flanders, business editor Robert Peston and political editor Nick Robinson, give their analysis.

0820 The Korean peninsula is at a "turning point" and there are opportunities for change, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in a new year speech. Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow in modern Korea at Leeds University, analyses
the shifting power in North and South Korea.

0824 Over the new year weekend, two robotic probes went into orbit around the moon in order to send information back to earth which should help scientists
establish what the moon is made of.
John Zarnecki, professor of Space Science at the Open University, explains the significance of any potential new findings.

0828 Sports news with Rob Bonnet

0835 Arab League observers in Syria have given apparently conflicting accounts of an incident said to have involved government snipers in the restive city of Deraa. Hazhir Teimourian, veteran commentator on the Middle East, and Nadim Shehadi, associate fellow of Chatham House's Middle East and north Africa programme,
discuss what impact the Arab League mission is having in Syria.

0840 Business news with Simon Jack.

0847 The BBC's Weather Test, designed to assess the accuracy of UK weather forecasters, has finally defined a protocol by which the forecasters' results will be judged. BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin, who devised the Weather Test, explains the new rules.

0850 People in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, are being warned of a possible outbreak of potentially fatal virus transmitted by mosquitoes.
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0853 In his New Year message, the prime minister admitted that 2012 would be "difficult" as the economy struggles and household finances are squeezed, but he insisted the coalition "got" the problems and would "do more" to help people through them. Matthew d'Ancona of the Sunday Telegraph and Andrew Rawnsley of the Observer discuss
the challenges lying ahead for David Cameron in 2012.

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